Name: Lamb‘s Liver Albanian Style (Arnavut Cğeri)
Cuisine: Turkey
Ingredients: red onion 1 large; salt ½ tsp; isot biber 2 tbsp; sumac 1 tsp; lemon wedges; lamb’s liver 450 g/1 lb, sliced a pencil’s width; plain flour 2 tbsp; olive oil; garlic cloves 2, chopped; cumin seeds 1 tsp

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Yashim Cooks Istanbul

By Jason Goodwin

Published 2016

About

In Venice very thin slices of liver are stirred for a few moments into a pan of onions which have melted slowly in olive oil. From Albania, across the Adriatic, comes this snappier Ottoman version.

Ingredients

plain flour 2 tbsp
salt ½ tsp
isot biber 2<

Method

Mix the flour with salt and the isot biber, or paprika if you can’t get the Turkish flaked chilli, and toss it with the sliced lamb’s liver, coating the meat. A paper bag is useful for this.
Slice the whole onion finely, and spread it on a serving plate.
Heat up some olive oil in a heavy pan. Gently fry the garlic with a teaspoonful of cumin seeds until th